Fresh tomatoes for prosecutors

Fresh tomatoes for prosecutors

JAKARTA (JP): Student demonstrators hurled dozens of fresh
tomatoes at the Attorney General's Office compound at Jl. Sultan
Hasanuddin No.1, South Jakarta, on Monday as they protested to
demand an independent prosecutors' office.

"This office symbolizes the death of justice in the country,"
Burhanuddin from the Syarif Hidayatullah Institute for Islamic
Studies said.

More than a hundred students from various institutes grouped
together in the Alliance of Indonesian Students' Formal Bodies
(Alfonso) staged a rally outside the compound, calling for the
Attorney General Marzuki Darusman to step down.

"Marzuki should leave office because he has failed to uphold
the law and justice," a student said in a speech during the
thirty-minute demonstration.

The students later headed for the Supreme Court and the
Merdeka Palace, Central Jakarta, to join their colleagues in
demanding the resignation of President Abdurrahman Wahid.(bby)